Castlerock is a very subtle, imagistic film at a very high level
of refinement, which explains the presence of Borgnine and Gorshin, and even
though itís filmed against the background of the desert for an extreme of
clarity, the cunning images have a way of deliberately shifting like sand dunes,
making for a rarefied understanding.

The main derived
images are from Antonioniís Zabriskie Point, Sherinís Valdez Is
Coming and Richardsonís The Border, films that are imperfectly
understood except by other filmmakers. Now, the way these images work is by
reduction, that little suburban girl is the Statue of Liberty and all it
represents, that suburban housewife has an undercurrent of mischief. Mind you,
thereís nothing pretentious about Castlerock any more than Stevensonís Old
Yeller, only a solid, precise statement of fact, a cogent analysis of
things not to be taken at face value.